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Our latest press releases, and Oklahoma Education news. Subscribe for our teaching tips and resources for school improvement.

Teachers change the world one child at a time!

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THANK YOU, Oklahoma educators, for all you do!

#TeacherAppreciationWeek

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Jan Barrick: Here's an idea: Test what we teach

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Alpha Plus CEO Jan Barrick gets to the point about high-stakes testing in a opinion piece on the editorial page of today's Tulsa World.

"Some third-graders will fail the reading test, and others will be promoted in spite of it. But is it fair to retain students because they failed to test well on standards they were never taught?" - Jan Barrick

Read Jan Barrick's analysis on The Tulsa World website: 

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Alpha Plus CEO meets Mayor Rudy Giuliani at UCO event

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Alpha Plus CEO Jan Barrick and Principal Max Miller met former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani after his keynote address at the UCO Distinguished Speaker Series event April 30, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond. Barrick said Mayor Giuliani's remarks were insightful and inspiring.

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Executive Q&A: Education consultant helps Oklahoma schools make the grade

Executive Q&A: Education consultant helps Oklahoma schools make the grade

By Paula Burkes Modified: March 16, 2014 at 10:00 am •  Published: March 16, 2014
 

In the early years after Jan Barrick started her education consulting business, her father and her Certified Public Accountant used to badger her annually around this time — tax time.

Photo - Jan Barrick, chief executive of Alpha Plus Educational Systems, Inc., displays some of the course curriculum she's written. Photo by Paul B. Southerland, The Oklahoman

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Alpha Plus congratulates "Reward" and other partner schools improving in 2013!

More than one third of schools (20 of 61 or 33%) served by Alpha Plus Educational Systems, Inc., in 2012-13 were identified as "2013 Reward Schools" by the Oklahoma State Department of Education.  Part of Oklahoma’s federal waiver of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the designations issued by the Oklahoma State Department of Education are dated Feb. 13, 2014. A "Reward" designation means these schools showed significant improvement or sufficiently high student achievement to warrant it under federal law.  The school designations are available on the OSDE website at http://www.ok.gov/sde/school-improvement.

In addition, four schools contracting with Alpha Plus in 2012-13 improved math and reading test scores enough to be removed from the ESEA list of low-performing schools.  Two of these improved from "Focus" level to "Reward" status! The “All Designations” PDF from the State Department of Education dated is available here:

http://www.ok.gov/sde/sites/ok.gov.sde/files/documents/files/All_Designation%20List%20From%20Accountability%2002%2006%202014.pdf.

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We Use Data to Help Schools on the Way to an A!

Teachers and administrators can quickly and easily identify students who need more help learning the Oklahoma Academic Standards.

Alpha Plus pinpoints the SPECIFIC OAS objectives or "gaps" students have from previous years, then helps school teams address each objective throughout the year.

That is why Alpha Plus schools have OUTPERFORMED the state average every year of the A-F Report Cards.